Quotes About Community

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

For a community to be whole and healthy, it must be based on people's love and concern for each other.

We of alien looks or words must stick together.

...A community needs a soul if it is to become a true home for human beings. You, the people must git it this soul.

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.

A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.

The military is a close-knit community and the loss of a brother in arms cuts deep, both to those of us in uniform and the extended families.

You can't fix education until you fix the community, education is not a building but a lifestyle and an environment.

Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.

Why can't we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn't work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos.

Sadder than destitution, sadder than a beggar is the man who eats alone in public. Nothing more contradicts the laws of man or beast, for animals always do each other the honor of sharing or disputing each other's food.

Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.

50 lemons are a burden for 1 person, but they are treasures for 50 people

Food is our common ground, a universal experience.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

One of the glories of New York is its ethnic food, and only McDonald's and Burger King equalize us all.

I love people who freely express themselves and give others the space and courage to express themselves too.

Hospitality means primarily the creation of free space where the stranger can enter and become a friend instead of an enemy. Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place. It is not to bring men and women over to our side, but to offer freedom not disturbed by dividing lines.

Freedom is not enough.

You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost pile.

You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man's freedom. You can be free only if I am free.

Nobody's free until everybody's free.

Everyone pushes a falling fence

I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.